Maxim Shatskikh: "If I scored a third of what my partners created for me, I would have overtaken Blokhin"

The head coach of Pakhtakor Tashkent, Maxim Shatskikh, has told us how he feels about his scoring record set at Dynamo Kyiv.

- "Believe me, I will not pray that, God forbid, someone will not beat it. I will only be in favour of it. I kept telling Selezniov about this: "Zheka, I will be the first to shake your hand and congratulate you." I said this even when he announced his desire to break the record. I don't hold on to it and have never done so.

Yes, of course, it is nice to have such an achievement. It means that my period in football was not in vain and I achieved something. Numbers are facts. It is very difficult to argue with statistics.

You are right that it will be much harder to break the record in today's realities, but let's wait and hope that someone will come along. And such a player will definitely be found - I'm sure of it. If not today, then tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

I repeat, I am proud of this achievement, but no more. I also always say that if I scored a third of what my teammates created for me, I would have already overtaken Oleg Blokhin. I scored one goal out of five or three chances. If I had scored at least two, it would have been wow," Shatskikh said.